The family map has been retired. OneTree no longer uses your location at all — no trail, no footprints, nothing in the background.

Invitations are about people now. The Family tab opens on everyone who is on your tree but can't see it yet — nearest family first — and each one gets their own link, with their name on it. Every moment opens as the kind of moment it is. A marriage in gold, with rings. A remembrance kept quiet. A birth, a move, a first day of school, each with its own mark — and births, marriages and deaths finally have pages of their own, built from your tree. Photographs open as photographs. Tap one and you get who is in it and how they are related to you, the day, the place, the moment it belongs to, and everyone else on the roll. You can correct a photograph now too — the caption, the year, the place, and who is in it — and add a whole handful at once instead of one at a time. "On this day" means on this day, and a day with nothing on it says something useful instead.

A remarried parent now stands between their marriages on the tree, instead of the new spouse being seated past the old one — where the two of them looked married to each other. A marriage that ended is drawn as a vine actually cut, with a clean break in it, so a divorce no longer reads as a marriage at a glance. And a date you only know the year of is now only a year. The picker shows years alone, no day is recorded, and nothing invents an anniversary from one: no "on this day", no countdown, no reminder on the 1st of January for a wedding nobody dated.

Rooted is now OneTree. Same private family archive: the same tree, the same timeline, the same photographs, moments and chats. Everything you have added is exactly where you left it, and everyone in your family stays where they are. Only the name on the outside has changed.

Every family, said properly. A MEMORY YOU CAN OPEN. Tap a moment on the story and it opens as a page rather than a form: the photograph it's remembered by, the day, the place, the telling, and the faces of everyone who was there. Editing waits behind a button, for when something needs correcting — the year you misremembered, the person left off, the story you'd rather have told. A WHOLE ROLL, NOT ONE PICTURE. A moment holds as many photographs as you like now. Choose the one it wears on the timeline; the rest are waiting inside. Hold any of them to make it the cover. THE WORDS FOR IT. A parent can be recorded by birth, by adoption, as a step-parent, or as a foster parent — and brothers and sisters can be told apart as half or step. The tree speaks the difference back: your adoptive mother, your stepsister, your foster son. Say nothing and nothing changes. CHOOSING PEOPLE, AT LAST. Tagging who was there used to be a wall of names covering the page. Now one line says who you picked — "Mum, Dad and four others" — and opens a proper sheet with a search field, faces beside the names, and each person's place in the family under them. The same for who can see a thing: one clear answer instead of a switch and a row of circles. MORNINGS THAT MATTER. A quiet word on the day: birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day and Father's Day — on the date the country you're standing in actually keeps them, which is not the same date everywhere. SMALLER KINDNESSES. A marriage remembers both people instead of one. Photographs fill in their own date from the picture itself. The name you give when you sign up isn't asked for a second time. And the way in is one door now, whether you're planting a tree or joining one already growing.

A truer tree, and a calmer one. THE TREE, REDRAWN. Families now grow on the side of the person they belong to — a father's parents stand beside him, a mother's beside her, and branches no longer cross half the canvas to reach their children. Every branch leaves from the middle of a couple, below both of them, so there's never a question of whose child someone is. And the tree is simply the tree now: one hand-drawn look. A NEW WAY TO LOOK. The people button opens one quiet sheet: see your whole tree, just your side of the family (or, unmarried, just your immediate family), or everyone in the archive — and choose whether cards carry recorded names or what you call people. THE STORY GROWS. A plus on the Story page: plan a get-together, record a memory, or add photos, right where the story is told. SMALL MENDINGS. Pages no longer sit blank after quick tab switches, sheets rise gently instead of springing up, and the timeline no longer mistakes the drive to the next town for a journey — travel means truly leaving home.

Your brother is your brother. If you added a sibling to the tree before anyone had entered their parents, Rooted couldn't work out how you were related — and instead of admitting that, the tree described them as having married into the family. It now reads those ties properly: brother and sister, and everything that follows from them — uncle, great-aunt, first cousin once removed — even when the parents above them are still blank. The DNA percentages now follow the same rule: a parent nobody has entered yet no longer halves a family. Your uncle shares 25% with you even while his mother's name is still missing from the tree — Rooted only calls a relationship "half" when the records actually prove it. And where Rooted genuinely doesn't know how someone connects to you, it now says nothing at all, rather than guessing.

This release is for the grandparents. On phones with Reduce Motion turned on, the welcome screen could appear with its buttons invisible — they were there, and they worked, but you could not see them. Fixed: everything on that screen now shows up regardless of motion settings, and the same guarantee was applied to the person panel, search, and filters throughout the app. At the largest accessibility text sizes, the welcome screen's buttons could also be pushed out of reach below the bottom of the screen. Fixed: the screen now scrolls, so its buttons are always reachable — and your text stays as large as you set it.

Footprints on the map. Turn it on and the family can see where you've walked over the last few days — a trail of footsteps that fades as it ages. It's off until you switch it on, and off again the moment you switch it back. Dates to remember. The calendar now knows the days a family is meant to remember — birthdays, anniversaries, and the people you light a candle for — alongside everything you've planned. How close you actually are. Tap anyone in the tree and Rooted names the relationship and how much of you is them: "Your first cousin · 12.5% DNA". Twins. Twins can be recorded as twins now, identical or not, and the tree draws them side by side where they belong. Pinch to move through the family. Zoom in on anyone to put them at the centre of the tree and see the family as they see it; pinch back out to return to your own. Long names fit. Names like Featherstonehaugh no longer run into the person standing next to them — on every one of the tree's looks, not just the classic one.

Your story, your circle, your name on the door. Choose who can see your timeline and photos: the whole family, people on your tree, or close family only - with exceptions for specific people, always or never, whatever the ring says. The app now carries your own family name in its headers - each member sees theirs - and you can retitle the archive anything you like, visible only to you. Invitations improved too: links no longer expire on a clock. Tap one, install the app later, tap again - it works until the moment you join. Invites arrive from the person who sent them, and a fresh code is minted automatically when one is used up.

Call your family what you actually call them. A new Names option captions the tree the way you speak: Mom, Grandpa Martin, Uncle Alon. Titles come from how each person is related to you, every member of the family sees their own version, and any name can be customized on a person's profile - pick from the usual ways (Nana, Bubbe, Zayde, Auntie...) or write your own. Also new: - Everyone: the entire family on one chart, every connection, both sides of every marriage - Your husband or wife's parents and siblings now appear on your own tree - Relatives show their photos in a person's card, planning a get-together asks the right questions, and visiting another relative's tree is clearly marked with a one-tap way home

A fix for how the family tree draws parents. When both of someone's parents are recorded but their marriage is not, the parents now stand together on the tree with their child's branch rising between them - before this fix the branch could appear to descend from the wrong couple.

The family tree, redrawn. Choose from five looks - the hand-drawn Classic, plus Tree, Space, Ocean, and Folio - all showing every side of the family equally, with profile photos right on the tree. Zoom toward any relative to see the family from their point of view. Also in this update: - Edit relationships from any profile and watch the tree redraw itself - Planning a get-together now asks for the occasion, the day, the place, and the guest list, then drops the invite into chat - Clearer dates for living relatives and dozens of small refinements

Invitations now work for someone who doesn't have the app yet. Share one and it goes out as a link: tapped on a phone that has Rooted it opens straight at the invitation, and on a phone that doesn't it offers the app, with the code shown so it can be typed in after installing. New invite codes let in one person and expire after thirty days — a link gets forwarded, and a code shouldn't stay a key forever. Choose "Anyone with the code" to invite a whole branch with one code instead. Codes you've already shared are unchanged. Adding a spouse or partner now brings their children with them. You see the list as you add them, ready to untick anyone they aren't a parent to, and the tree draws the shared children descending from the two of them together rather than hanging off one. A child added to someone already paired is offered that partner as a second parent, and couples already on the tree can be brought up to date from the marriage screen. Every parent on a child's page now has a Remove beside it, so a connection made by mistake is easy to undo. Place suggestions say what they're doing as you type — looking, the places found, or that nothing matched — instead of quietly showing nothing.

Siblings now appear on the tree the moment you add them. The map has been redrawn: everyone's last few days show as their own colour-coded trail, ending at their face — no more markers piled on top of each other. Moments and memories now take videos as well as photographs. They appear in the timeline as a still with a play badge, and open full screen when you tap them. Any place field — a get-together, a photograph, a birthplace — now suggests real cities, regions, and addresses as you type. The archive keeps itself up to date. When a relative joins or someone adds to the tree, it appears without closing and reopening the app. Once you've claimed your own card on the tree, it's yours alone to edit.